The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-03-12
An tan do bhreth fo deraibh."
In English:

An tan do bhreth fo deraibh."
In English:
IN holy Tours was Patrick born;
For thus tits told in story;
Scarce sixteen years his life had known,
When he was led to slavery"
The blunder originated in mistaking
the Irish words of the above verse ''nem
Thur" for '.in" Emtor or Emptor,
When the Scott of Hibernia, under
their King Mall, of the Nine Ho-
stages, had, in spite of the Roman En-
pire, widely devastated many provinces
of Britannia, whilst Gratianus was En-
peror, they at first merely subdued the
northern region of that country, but
afterward, having expelled the old in
habitants, the Hibernianses, i. g., Irish,
took possession of the land and dwelt
there themselves. l have not time to
write out the original in the Latin here,
else I would give it. AT this time a
fleet from Hibernia plundered the c0un-
try where the holy Patricius was abid-
ing and many captives were brought off
into Hibernia, among whom was Pa
tricius Ill the sixteenth year of his age
and the ninth year of the reign of
Mall, King of Hibernia, who ruled
triumphantly for twenty-seven years,
and laid waste Britain and Anglia, as
far as the sea which lies between Anglia
and Gala. The region of the Gallo
coast, then called Arm RIGA, is now
known as Little Britain or Brittany.
The fact that the mother of st. Patrick,
whose name was Conchessa, who was a
native of Gaul, and sister to st. Mar
tin, Bishop of Tours in France, points
clearly as all the most ancient and
learned Gaelic writer's assert that St.
Patrick was a native of Brittany in
France, as there is nothing in p int of
fact to point MS to such places in Scot
land. Moore concurs with Heating
and other writer's that Armorica was
actually the place of his birth. From a
passage in the letter st. Patrick wrote
to Caroticus, it is inferred that his
family were of Roman origin. His
father held the office of Decurio, or
municipal senator, though it appears
afterwards that he entered holy orders
and was deacon. But this frequently
occurred in the early ages Of the
Church.
The following pedigree of st. Patrick,
set in Irish verse by Flaun, Abbot Of
Monasterboice, in the ninth century, is
given in the annals of the -Four Masters
and various authorities:
Patrick Abbot of all Fri,
Was son of Calpraun, son of Fotaide,
Son Of Deisse, the praiseworthy,
Son of great Cormac, son of Leibruith,
Son of Ota son of Orric the good,
Son of Moiric, son of Leo the lucky,
Son of Maximus, tits meet to name him,
Son of the tall and fair Encretta,
Son of Pilist, the best of men,
Son of Terms, the serene,
Son of Britain, that sea-otter, E.
From whom the stalwart Britons sprung,
Cochnias was his modest mother,
Nemthor was his native town;
OF Mumha no small share had he,
From sorrow Patrick saved her sons.''
The ancient Gaelic records inform us
that Gaul did actually send hostages to
Mall, and st. Patrick was one of them.
In the pictorial ''Lives of the Saints"
edited by the Able Lecanue, a French
man, it is recorded that ST. Patrick
was trained in a Christian manner, in
the bosom of wealthy family in Brit
ain, but was captured in his youth by
pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland.
What he had to endure from the hum
grr, nakedness. and ill-treatment at
taching to the condition of a slave, may
be more easily conceiyed than described.
Patrick, however, in the midst Of peo~
pie then involved in the darkness Of
paganism. gave himself up to fervent
prayer, and his supplications were
heard, for he regained his liberty,
which had been the main object of his
vows. He subsequently returned to
his own country, and passed three
years in France. in the monastery Of
Marmoutiers. in order to qualify him
self for a purpose he had greatly at
heart. When fully prepared, he went
to Italy to cast himself at the feet of
the Sovereign Pontiff and craved at
his hands the favor of being invested
with the high privilege of missionary
to Ireland. The Pope consented with
great joy, and consecrated him Bishop,
and sent him on his journey, accom-
panied by other evangelical laborers.
After thirty years of toll, zeal, and de-
votion, favored by the benediction OF
Heaven, St. Patrick converted almost
the whole of Ireland to the Christian
faith, and died about the year 1854 (this
is an astounding mistake, but not hav-
ing the original work, 1 rather hold Mr..
Duffy, the Dublin publisher, respon-
sible for it than the Able Lecanue.)
Father Thomas Walsh, in his ''Church
History of Ireland" says: "He was at
tended by Tassach, Bishop of Rath-
colpa, near Down, and having received
from him tha hn1v Viaticllm he de-